VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels
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Why change? Programming is pretty much the same on both services now - stretch-o-vision and commercial interruptions seem to be what the mass market wants these days.
With Howard talking about leaving Sirius early to save them money I dont know if the Howard TV route is going to last too long.
Not all of us. I am enjoying plenty of HD without commercials on FIOS. They carry all 26 HBO/MAX HD multichannels (unlike DirecTV that has 3) and all the same Starz and more Showtime/TMCs. They have all the good commercial HD channels that DirecTV has, and more. Sure, DirecTV has the Viacom stuff, but they are just what you are complaining about, no HD.
Not all of us want stretch-o-vision crap. Voom really went downhill and gave Dish a reason to get rid fo them.
Voom should have consolidated to 3 channels and they would have been picked up by more providers. There attitude did them in. They wanted providers to carry ALL their channels. I'd have been happy with just Monsters HD or a consolidation into a few channels.
haha.... he is thinking of leaving early to save them money? Since when has he thought about anybody but himself? If he is so worried about saving them money he could work for 1% of his current pay and he'd still be fine. No?
Maybe Rainbow Media needs to take advantage of the domestic shutdown of VOOM by retooling and redirecting HD resources into their real networks (AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel, We, etc.).
With VOOM doing so much regurgitation of repeated programming and repeating it even more it's no wonder why Dish dropped the channel package. Rainbow thinks they're going to get $1 billion out of E* in their lawsuit. Again, I think they need to increase their concentration on promoting and improving channels like AMC, IFC, etc. instead.
With VOOM doing so much regurgitation of repeated programming and repeating it even more it's no wonder why Dish dropped the channel package. Rainbow thinks they're going to get $1 billion out of E* in their lawsuit. Again, I think they need to increase their concentration on promoting and improving channels like AMC, IFC, etc. instead.
Sounds more like Cablevision got some deals done, and now needs the space. I have thought for a long time they were only on Cablevision to keep the count up.
But I suppose it will somehow be Dish's fault that Voom couldn't get a deal done with DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner cable, Fios, Uverse, or any other provider.
Hopefully the good parts of their programming will be picked up.
Unfotunatley, this is not likely to improve Dish-Rainbow relations. IFC, AMC, and WE would be great HD pickups, but I suspect this makes that more unlikely.
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